Planning for deep learning across the curriculum

Since the introduction of the new National Curriculum in 2014, our school’s aim has been to design a curriculum that meets the needs of the students at our school, is broad and balanced, and is engaging for all. In order to do this we have carried out research by attending courses and reading widely around the subject, trialled strategies in some classes across school to compare impact and reviewed our practice regularly. Although our curriculum will constantly evolve, we feel that we have made huge strides towards achieving a curriculum that meets our initial aims. Initial curriculum designs were, in hindsight, not planned out effectively enough and did not fully enable our students to have a real depth of knowledge across the curriculum. Following the first set of results under the new assessment system (Combined Reading, Writing, Maths = 57%, High score = 2%; Reading – Expected standard = 75%, High score = 8%; Maths – expected standard = 69%, high score = 10%), we realised